Greenville, SC – The first snow of the season arrived across the southern Appalachians overnight, leaving a light coating across the mountains of western North Carolina and northeast Georgia by Tuesday morning.
According to the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg, most of the accumulation occurred above 3,000 feet, with reports showing between 1 and 3 inches in the higher peaks near the Tennessee border. Lower elevations saw only a dusting as the system moved through before sunrise.
The snowfall map, covering a 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday, highlights the heaviest totals along the North Carolina-Tennessee line, where parts of Madison and Yancey counties reported just over 2 inches. Light flurries were also noted in nearby Rabun County, Georgia, and the upstate South Carolina border region.
Forecasters say the snow won’t last long. “It’s only mid-November, so it won’t stick around,” the agency said in a social media update, noting that rising daytime temperatures will quickly melt most of the accumulation.
Still, it marks the region’s first measurable snow of the 2025–2026 winter season — a sign of colder weather settling into the southern Appalachians.
